Wang Anshi's Bodhisattva Man
Wang Anshi
Several thatched cottages are facing the water leisurely, and I am walking among weeping willows in a small and narrow hat.
If the flower was the brightest last year, it was the spring breeze that blew it away. How can it not be bright red?
But tonight's new moon is lying on the top of the tree. I drank a cup of drunk wine at noon until I woke up that night.
What is most related to human feelings, thinking about it, or the two or three calls of orioles hidden deep in that bush.
Appreciation of Wang Anshi's Ci
This word is the author's work of seclusion in Jiangning Mid-levels in his later years. "Notes on Neng Gai Zhai" says: "Wang built a thatched cottage halfway up the mountain, taking merit and water as a small port, piling stones as a bridge and irrigating bodhisattvas as a set of sentences." The whole article uses the poems of predecessors as lyrics, making it sound like one's own mouth, truly serving one's expression, describing one's leisure life and pretending to be open-minded.
At the beginning of the sentence, "A few huts are idle near the water, with narrow shirts and short hats and weeping willows" clearly expresses their current living environment and identity. In the past, the official residence with heavy buildings, eaves and walls, carved columns and painted buildings was replaced by a waterside hut with a fence as the wall and grass as the house; Nowadays, the clothes for idle people, narrow shirts and short hats, have replaced the previous ones with pythons. The author came to the weeping willows by the water bridge from Dan in Jiuchong Chenque. Wang Anshi seems to take a calm attitude towards this change. The word "leisure" renders an indifferent and quiet living environment, and also points out the author's rural interest in getting rid of the official sea and the hubbub. Although the two sentences are taken from predecessors' poems, the things they refer to are appropriate and natural.
Then "last year, the flowers were red and the wind blew all night." These two sentences are about scenery: one night, the spring breeze came and colorful flowers were blowing, and the scenery was just like last year. However, as a politician who is determined to reform, his feelings for flowers and plants and personnel have changed, which is not only a sigh for the passage of time and the approaching of his old age, but also a sorrow for his failure to realize his ambition. Therefore, even in a seemingly leisurely life, the moonlight wind in nature will arouse the politician's sensitivity and concern, giving him a certain symbolic meaning: "The new moon overhead will die, and you will wake up late when you are drunk at noon." The author is drunk and sleeps during the day, so he doesn't have to participate in politics with the whole class. Life is so leisurely. However, it was not the breeze and bright moon that accompanied him to wake up, but the dark night when the wind blew and the moon set.
The last sentence of Bodhisattva Man naturally boils down to leisure: "What is the most important thing? The orioles sing three times." The author asks himself and answers himself, writes implicitly and has a long aftertaste. According to Feng Zhi's Miscellaneous Notes on Yunxian, Gao Yinwai wrote: "You fought with oranges, and people asked him why, saying:" Listen to the voice of an oriole. What do you know about this vulgar criticism and poetic preaching? It can be seen that Wang Anshi's love for orioles is not only a manifestation of his leisure, flowers and birds, but also a manifestation of his aloof and sincere character.
This word is similar to Wang Anshi's poems in his later years, depicting picturesque lakes and mountains with refined pen and ink. Poetry creates a beautiful, leisurely and quiet artistic conception, so as to express free and easy feelings and seek spiritual comfort and relief. When the poet describes the spring scenery, there are no allusions and carvings, and the language is fresh and natural. In a few strokes, he painted a beautiful picture, with the scene of the sun, night scenes, bright colors of green mountains and green waters, red flowers and green willows, the sound of running water and the chirping of orioles, and the image of the author faded into this picture. The relaxed and tranquil life scene of the whole poem reflects the politician's mind and ambition, the elegant and agile style shows the author's talent and strength, and embodies Wang Anshi's simple and implicit ci style.